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TK0312
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2 years ago

How to compress or reduce the binary size to the equivalent of an old FPGA

When I was designing on Cyclone1, the binary size was within 64KB in compressed mode. When I compiled the exact same design file on Cyclone10LP, the binary size grew to more than 160KB in compressed...
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FvM
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2 years ago

Hi,
I'm quite sure it's not possible.

1. Uncompressed EP1C6 image is specified with 146 kB, compression factor isn't necessarily better than 60 %, even compressed image isn't guaranteed to fit 64 kB.


2.Uncompressed 10CL016 image is 509 kB, a fully utilized device needs > 256 kB fpr compressed image.

My approach is to reserve space for unmcompressed configuration image if possible.